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We're online! 🌎 Canada's largest public #philosophy group hosting daily talks, reading groups, discussions + more. Contact us to collaborate! 🍁 #PublicPhilosophy
➡ Join us on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/
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Join us on #Zoom to discuss The Act of Killing (2012), the acclaimed #documentary about the 1965–66 #Indonesian genocide by Joshua Oppenheimer! 🎥

▶ Sign up for the Dec 7 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #Film #Movies #Politics
The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer — Movie Discussion , Sun, Dec 7, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
**“'War crimes' are defined by the winners. I'm a winner. So I can make my own definition...” One of the most conceptually innovative and ethically disorientating films in
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December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Join us on #Zoom to discuss The Act of Killing (2012), the acclaimed #documentary about the 1965–66 #Indonesian genocide by Joshua Oppenheimer! 🎥

▶ Sign up for the Dec 7 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #Film #Movies #Politics
The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer — Movie Discussion , Sun, Dec 7, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
**“'War crimes' are defined by the winners. I'm a winner. So I can make my own definition...” One of the most conceptually innovative and ethically disorientating films in
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December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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“We’re drawn to magic bullet solutions that cannot solve complex social problems. It is all too easy for someone who makes a genuinely profound discovery to think they have found the secret of life, or the environment, or disease.”
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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What are #Emotions? Join us #online for a new reading group on #MerleauPonty & the book Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject! 😊

👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on Nov 21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy #Phenomenology
Turning Emotion Inside Out with Ed Casey and Merleau-Ponty, Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
In ***[Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject](https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Emotion-Inside-Out-Phenomenology/dp/0810144336/)*** (2021), Edward S. C
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November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What are #Emotions? Join us #online for a new reading group on #MerleauPonty & the book Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject! 😊

👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on Nov 21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy #Phenomenology
Turning Emotion Inside Out with Ed Casey and Merleau-Ponty, Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
In ***[Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject](https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Emotion-Inside-Out-Phenomenology/dp/0810144336/)*** (2021), Edward S. C
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November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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When Wanda Diáz-Merced lost her sight as a college student, she thought her dreams of becoming an astronomer were over — until she learned to listen to space instead.

Listen to the fourth episode of our new four-part series, The Sound Barrier:
The Sound Barrier #4: Listen to the universe
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November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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What is #Love? Why does it matter? Join us #online every Saturday for a live reading group on #Plato's Symposium! 💕 #Ethics

➡ Sign up for the 1st meeting on Nov 8 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events and discussions! #Philosophy #Literature #Metaphysics
Plato’s Symposium, on Love (Live Reading) , Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 10:30 AM | Meetup
The *Symposium* is a heavily fictionalised account of a convivial gathering supposedly taking place sometime around 416 BC and given by the young poet Agathon to celebrate
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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What is #Love? Why does it matter? Join us #online every Saturday for a live reading group on #Plato's Symposium! 💕 #Ethics

➡ Sign up for the 1st meeting on Nov 8 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events and discussions! #Philosophy #Literature #Metaphysics
Plato’s Symposium, on Love (Live Reading) , Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 10:30 AM | Meetup
The *Symposium* is a heavily fictionalised account of a convivial gathering supposedly taking place sometime around 416 BC and given by the young poet Agathon to celebrate
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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We can debate someday where this World Series ranks among the all-time classics. But let’s leave that for another time.

@jaysonst.bsky.social has the deep dive on why the 2025 World Series was so special ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
In Game 7, Dodgers, Blue Jays deliver fitting finale to World Series that had ‘everything’
Digesting the moments, memories and history lessons from a Game 7 — and World Series — that kept us riveted from start to finish.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Join us #online for a spooky #Halloween movie discussion on The #Exorcist! 👿 But it's also a serious film exploring themes of #faith, #death, & the limits of human #knowledge.

👉 RSVP for the Oct 26 meeting here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy
Movie Discussion (Spooky Halloween Edition) – The Exorcist (1973), Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
*The Exorcist* (1973), directed by William Friedkin, is a landmark horror film that follows the terrifying possession of a young girl, Regan, and her mother’s desperate eff
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October 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Annual Lecture 2025: Professor Will Kymlicka

Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies

12/11/25, 6pm, King’s College London.
Drinks reception will follow.
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

#philosophy #philsky #KCL #willkymlicka
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2025
SAP & YTL Centre invite Will Kymlicka to deliver the 2025 Annual Lecture: Society as a Common Possession: Membership & Solidarity.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Toronto Blue Jays LFG!!

For Canada! 🇨🇦 🍁🧢⚾️🏟️
#WorldSeries2025 #BlueJays
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Join us #online on #Halloween for a special discussion on H.P. #Lovecraft, Weird Realism, and #Philosophy! 👹

👉 Sign up for this October 31 meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #BookClub #Metaphysics #Literature #Cthulhu #Being #Heidegger
Halloween Special: Heidegger, H.P. Lovecraft, and Weird Realism, Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 3:15 PM | Meetup
Hello Everyone, welcome to this Halloween philosophy meetup which will last one night only. But what a night! I honestly do not know if this meetup will be mostly fun like
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October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Join us #online for a philosophically-focused live reading & discussion series for James #Joyce's #Ulysses! ☘️ #Bloomsday

▶ RSVP for the 1st meeting on Oct 25 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

🗓 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #Philosophy #BookClub #Literature #Aquinas
Reading Ulysses: A Philosophical Discussion Group , Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 8:00 PM | Meetup
This is the first meeting of a group reading Joyce's Ulysses from a philosophical perspective; i.e., concentrating on the philosophical themes, whether latent or explicit,
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October 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Join us #online on #Halloween for a special discussion on H.P. #Lovecraft, Weird Realism, and #Philosophy! 👹

👉 Sign up for this October 31 meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #BookClub #Metaphysics #Literature #Cthulhu #Being #Heidegger
Halloween Special: Heidegger, H.P. Lovecraft, and Weird Realism, Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 3:15 PM | Meetup
Hello Everyone, welcome to this Halloween philosophy meetup which will last one night only. But what a night! I honestly do not know if this meetup will be mostly fun like
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October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Announcing: On Philosophy, Fall 2025!!
All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except Oct. 27th at 3pm ET)
featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Quill Kukla, James Bridle, Louise Amoore, Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, Jennifer Park, Dan McQuillan, and so many more!
#Philosophy #PhilEvents
September 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did #Heidegger get #Plato wrong? 🤔 Join us #online for a reading group on Plato's #phenomenology and dialogical #ethics! 👀

▶ Sign up for the 1st meeting on 9/13 here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-...

📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #Philosophy #Metaphysics #Being #Gadamer
Heidegger & His Platonic Critics: Strauss, Gadamer, & Patočka, Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup
This book introduces the arguments of three prominent Platonic critics of Heidegger — Leo Strauss (1899-1973), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), and Jan Patočka (1907-1977)
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September 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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What would a Canadian insurgency look like?

This week on Gloves Off, we explore the unthinkable: a U.S. military occupation of Canada, why insurgencies form, and how ordinary people become fighters.

🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/gloves-off
Gloves Off
Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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July 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome!

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Why Nietzsche Hated Stoicism — His Rejection Explained, Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
*"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been — a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir…"* Nie
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August 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Life is a moral catastrophe. To exist is to be unavoidably complicit in an order that is entirely evil. What are we to do about this moral fact? Should we retire from existence as quickly and as peacefully as possible? Or is there another way?
Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics | Aeon Essays
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe
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August 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome!

RSVP here - www.meetup.com/the-toronto-...
Why Nietzsche Hated Stoicism — His Rejection Explained, Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
*"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been — a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir…"* Nie
www.meetup.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Join us #online tonight for the start of a live reading series on Classical Chinese #Poetry! 🖌️ We begin with The Book of Songs from ~1100 BC.

👉 Sign up here – meetup.com/the-toronto-...

Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy discussions & events! #BookClub #History #Literature #Confucianism
Classical Chinese Poetry: The Book of Songs / 詩經 (1046–771 BC), Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
The 詩經 or Shijing (alternately known as the "Classic of Poetry", "The Book of Songs", and other names) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and a cornerst
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August 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Drawing on perspectivism, the Übermensch, and Eternal Recurrence, Leah Batstone argues that Mahler’s symphonies recast Nietzsche’s ideas through a progressive, pluralistic lens. | iai.tv/articles/how...

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#philsky #artsky #musicsky
How Mahler's symphonies reclaimed Nietzsche from the far right | Leah Batstone
Explore how Gustav Mahler's symphonies reinterpret Nietzsche's philosophy, offering a progressive vision that transcends far-right ideologies through music's unique insights.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM